Up close and personal in West End #Griffithvotes
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Month: June 2016
West End street artist at SLQ
West End street-artist Oilik has been invited to exhibit at the State Library Queensland starting tomorrow, Saturday 18th June. A renowned satirical cartoonist in Iran, Hesam Fretati has continued working in Australia, making street art and a series of political cartoons based on the migrant experience in Australia. In the lead up to his graduation, his Anticipation series will be hung as part of a group show in the Philip Bacon Heritage Gallery on level 4 State Library of Queensland, Southbank from 18th June. Brisbane based artist, Hesam Fretati, has retrieved a handful of the books pulped and banned...
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Let’s talk about death and dying
Local residents interested in starting a community hospice in West End are invited to attend a community meeting on Sunday 26th June at the West End Community House in Norfolk Rd from 10am-12pm. The meeting is being organised by Carly Jay Metcalfe, a death midwife and secular hospital pastoral carer currently working at the P.A hospital. Carly Jay says “I have a lot of first hand experience with both dying and death after growing up with Cystic Fibrosis and having a double lung transplant in 1998 with days to live. I was 21, and very, very lucky. “I’ve had...
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West End Film Festival showcases new Aussie short films
The evidence is in; we Australians want to see stories made by and for us on the big screen – in fact, in 2015 Australian film had its biggest year at the box office ever. And it’s ‘our’ stories that are on offer at the coming West End Film Festival (WEFF). WEFF has been showcasing short films created by Australians since 2009 when a group of local Brisbane filmmakers identified the need to build a platform to showcase local work. WEFF also provides an entry-way for emerging filmmakers into the larger film festivals held around the country. 2016 WEFF...
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Silent treatment from Kingaroy miner
Kingaroy residents most likely to be impacted by the proposed Kingaroy coal mine were not surprised when the proponent company, Moreton Resources, again refused to meet with them as a group last week. It is the second time that landholders in and near the proposed mine site have been declined the opportunity to speak to the company. “This is likely to be an excuse by a company that knows the credibility of its proposal could be exposed by simple questions from a group of landholders.” group spokesperson John Dalton said. “At a community forum in February, the company couldn’t...
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